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Oak Island council approves $1.9 million fire truck contract; interim manager authorized to sign
Summary
The Oak Island Town Council unanimously approved a $1,899,519 contract to purchase a new fire truck and authorized Interim Town Manager Kent Jackson to sign the agreement in place of Mayor Chris Brown. The council also held closed sessions on personnel and land acquisition and reported no actions taken there.
The Oak Island Town Council unanimously approved a $1,899,519 contract to buy a new fire truck and authorized Interim Town Manager Kent Jackson to sign the agreement in place of Mayor Chris Brown at a special called meeting in early July 2026.
A committee member moved "A motion to approve the contract for purchase of a fire truck in the amount of $1,899,519 as presented in our agenda packet and to further authorize our interim town manager, Kent Jackson, to sign in place of our mayor." Bill Craft, sitting in for Mayor Chris Brown, seconded the motion and recorded the vote as unanimous, saying, "Motion unanimous." The transcript lists the motion and the subsequent unanimous vote on the record.
The approval covers the contract amount as stated at the meeting; the transcript does not specify funding sources or whether the purchase will require additional budget amendments or outside approvals. Interim Town Manager Kent Jackson was named in the motion as the official authorized to execute the contract if the mayor is unavailable.
Council members first moved into closed session earlier in the meeting to discuss personnel pursuant to a North Carolina statute the transcript references. Later in the session the council voted to go into closed session again to discuss potential land acquisition and specific personnel matters; when the council returned from that closed session a representative recorded that no action had been taken.
The meeting record includes inconsistent date references (the speaker first refers to "July 6" and later the record states "07/07/2026"). The transcript also verbally cited a state statute number in a garbled form; the council stated the closed-session authority as North Carolina General Statute related to closed sessions. The article reports the council's actions and the amounts shown in the meeting transcript; it does not attempt to locate budgetary approvals or procurement records beyond the meeting record.
The council adjourned following the votes. No next steps or implementation timeline for the truck purchase were listed in the transcript.
